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International Poetry Film Festival, Los Angeles: Official Selection
The third annual International Poetry Film Festival, Los Angeles, at Beyond Baroque will feature screenings of nearly 40 poetry-based films from around the world, including selections from France, India, Belgium, Ireland, and the United States. Selected by festival director Lynn Holley and Beyond Baroque, the films will be screened in The Wanda Coleman Theater at Beyond Baroque.
This year’s Opening Night on Friday, April 26, at 7 PM, features a special screening of Life is a Saxophone, a documentary that captures legendary poet Kamau Daáood as he considers survival as an oral poet in an electronic age, filmed in 1984 and shot in 16 mm. After the screening, hear from S. Pearl Sharp, Roberto Miguel Miranda, and Gale Fulton Ross in a conversation and Q&A moderated by poet Benin Lemus.
Opening Night is FREE for Beyond Baroque members.
In addition to the feature documentary, the Opening Night event includes screenings of three Official Selection poem-based films accepted to this year’s festival.
The official schedule for the festival’s program will include a wide variety of experimental, narrative, documentary, and animated poem-based films. This year, we are excited to debut a short poetry film using components of AI made by Mike Gioia, from Blank Verse Films. In The Mike Kelly Gallery, we’ll showcase Photo News, a project by visual artist Jody Zellen composed of montages of newspaper headline fragments combined with images of news or nature.
Tickets are available at a discount for Beyond Baroque members and discounted tickets are available for non-members for Opening Night and the Film Festival. Food and drinks will be available on-site. For more about selected films, tickets, and previous winners of the festival, visit poetryfilmfestival.org
Event Links
Tickets: https://go.evvnt.com/2372296-0
